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Laird Bell '04, of Chicago, Illinois, lawyer and trustee of the University of Chicago; Harrison Tweed '07, of New York, lawyer, president of the Legal Aid Society of New York, and former vice-president of the Alumni Association; G. Peabody Gardner, Jr., of Boston, chairman of the 300th Anniversary Fund, chief marshal of the 1935 commencement, and former secretary of the Harvard Corporation...
...swank Greenwich, Conn, is a collection of Gothic-Roman- esque-Italianate buildings which are predominantly pink stucco chiefly because pink is a favorite color of Rosemary's breezy, strong-minded old Headmistress Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece). The "Boarders" and the "Day Boarders" wear wool or tweed uniforms in winter and gingham ones in spring tailored to Headmistress Ruutz-Rees's exact specifications. All regard her with a loyalty that makes Rosemary Hall notable among girls' schools not so much for its fashionableness and its stiff scholastic standards as for the fact that it perfectly...
...harmony they bring with either a plain suit or a striped one. Rep Ties, distinguished by their ribbed surface, are favorites, while the Macclesfield, always a winter favorite is still proper for more formal town suits. Plain color knits and wool ties which go so well with the tweed and shetland suits will also be leading numbers. Blues and reds are taking the lead in the color line with an increasing interest in green. Wine is the most versatile color combining with almost any color suit...
...weekly Presbyterian Banner announced that Toronto's Victoria College awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree Oct. 10 to "Lord Tweed S. Muir, Governor-General of Canada." Few days after said John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) upon receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws from Queen's University at Kingston, Ont.: "We are living in a confused and difficult world...
Hale and ebullient in a grey tweed suit and straw hat, Henry Ford stepped briskly into the powerhouse of his huge River Rouge plant one morning last week accompanied by Son Edsel and other princes of his empire. The wiry, old motor manufacturer, who will be 73 next week, stopped to chat with newshawks, glancing fondly and frequently at a newly installed steam turbine generator towering 21 ft. from the floor...